Word: solicitors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...home he had lately bought on fancy Palm Inland, just outside Miami, Fla. Though Miami usually welcomes wealthy Chicagoans, this time it was inhospitable. The newspapers printed high headlines announcing the visitor's return. A subpoena was issued for his presence in the county solicitor's office...
...letter to the press last week: "I myself was asked to go to Scotland Yard in the same way. I escaped Miss Savage's unpleasant experience because I happen to know, as few people do, that the police powers are not all that they pretend to be. My solicitor informed the Scotland Yard authorities that I was perfectly willing to answer any questions they put to me at his office in front of him, but that I would not go to Scotland Yard. This offer was not accepted...
Perhaps it was to prove that he really felt badly about it that Governor Richards last week gave the Ben Bess case a new twist. He wrote a letter to the solicitor of the Florence district and suggested that he present to the Grand Jury the white trash woman, Maude Collins, now 60 years old and expecting Death soon...
After practicing law locally with West Virginia coal men for his clients, John William Davis became internationally famed. He went to Congress for four years, then was U. S. Solicitor General, then went to the Court of St. James's as U. S. Ambassador (1918-21). Guy Despard Goff, meantime, did not rise beyond a district attorney's office until the Harding regime, when he became Harry Micajah Daugherty's Assistant Attorney General. He only reached the U. S. Senate in 1925. By that time John William Davis, his younger fellow-townsman, was foremost Democrat...
Married. Estelle Winwood, 45, famed actress (Why Marry?, Too Many Husbands, The Taming of the Shrew, The Furies, etc.); to Francis B. Bradley, marine solicitor; in Manhattan...